“Where there's no stop and go
a thought may wet your face,
a breath arrest your stare.”

—  Nathaniel Tarn

Poem Markings published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1968) Where Babylon ends.

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American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator 1928

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